Encyclopedia of Social Problems Provides as comprehensive an approach as possible to this multifaceted field, utilizing experts from numerous disciplines. These subject areas include anthropology, biology, business, chemistry, communications, criminal justice, demography, economics, education, environmental studies, geography, health, history, languages, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and women's studies.
International Handbook of Gender and Poverty In the interests of contextualising the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject. In this volume it is possible to study women's and men's experiences of gendered poverty with respect to the vast spectrum of intersecting issues.
Poverty and Discrimination Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.
Poverty in the United States: An encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy follows the history of poverty in the United States, with an emphasis on the 20th century, and examines the evolvement of public policy and the impact of critical movements in social welfare such as the New Deal, the War on Poverty, and, more recently, the "end of welfare as we know it." 
World Poverty: a reference handbook Contents/Summary: 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Aid, trade, debt, and the world's poor : some key controversies -- 3. Special U.S. issues -- 4. Chronology -- 5. Biographical sketches -- 6. Data and documents -- 7. Directory of organizations -- 8. Selected print and nonprint resources.The following databases are good starting points for finding articles about Poverty. Some keywords you could use to begin your search are poverty and "United States"
These sites are excellent sources for information and further links.
The Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis
The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Joint Center for Poverty Research of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago
The Kentucky Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky
The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan
The RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center at the University of Iowa
The West Coast Poverty Research Center at the University of Washington
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